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  BIG NEWS! Leader of German Watchtower History Archives Resignes and Leaves Branch Office!

  by GermanXJW in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  johannes wrobel, the founder of the watchtower history archives in germany, responsible for the stand firm-video and the stand-firm-exhibitions resigned in november 2008 and left the german branch office.

  he was also the responsible person for many of the wt sponsored websites on jw in the 'third reich'!.

  there are no further details known yet but this could be big news!.

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  He was some kind of Bethel "heavy" who made contributions for both Awake! and Watchtower magazine as outlined in his cv.

  As stated above, there is a lot between the lines. I perceive that he writes very carefully - maybe because he does not want to threaten relationships he still has or potentially could reactivate. He states that he was not ready to write about his past and he is pointing out to future information he might share. Wrobel seems to have left the JW since he speaks about starting a new life in 2008 "after having been a good member of a religious grouping for 45 years". I think he would not have left if he still thought this is the truth. I assume that he kept himself busy with the documentation work and fell into a dark hole after that was taken away.

  He writes quite readable but with the distance of a historian - with a little hint here and there about his feelings.

  I am looking forward to reading how his story is developing.
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  Mark Sanderson wears an Apple Watch at regional convention

  by Edison Trent in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  last weekend was regional convention and mark sanderson was the bethel speaker for the last talks every day.

  his talks were video streamed from zurich to other cities in switzerland, austria and germany.

  one interesting point was that he wore an apple watch, stainless steel edition (link).

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  As a JW I would Quote John 12: "3Then Mary took about a pinta of pure nard, an expensive perfume; she poured it on Jesus’ feet and wiped his feet with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.

  4But one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, who was later to betray him, objected, 5“Why wasn’t this perfume sold and the money given to the poor? It was worth a year’s wages.b ” 6He did not say this because he cared about the poor but because he was a thief; as keeper of the money bag, he used to help himself to what was put into it.

  7“Leave her alone,” Jesus replied. “It was intended that she should save this perfume for the day of my burial. 8You will always have the poor among you,c but you will not always have me.”
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  Generation expiry date?

  by pleaseresearch in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  how long will it take for a jw to see that even the overlapping generation is wrong?.

  the org waited and waited to see if their interpretation of it came true.

  those alive in 1914 would still be alive obviously it didn't and jws have to believe in an overlapping generation.

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  I am expecting that they are building a bridge so that they can refer to the 120 year period in Noah's days and will point to 2034.
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  Headline: "Islamic Invasion: Europe now scrambles for guns." How true is this?

  by cappytan in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  a year to a year and a half ago, i would have taken this article at face value and believed it.. now, i realize this article comes from a dubious source.

  world news daily has a die-hard right-wing bias.

  so, in an effort to get real information, i'm asking my european exjw's, is this article all true?

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  Not heard of it.
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  John N. Wischuk

  by GermanXJW in

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  2. scandals

  on the german board we recently had a discussion about the people that were involved in the production of the aid-book and that later left the organization.

  in coc the following persons are mentioned in connection with the aid-book project: lyman swingle, john wischuk, raymond franz and reinhard lengtat.

  franz and lengtat later left the jw.

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  I spotted him on the 2015 production "The Kingdom - 100 Years and Counting"
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  Lett video

  by Gorbatchov in

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  2. friends

  i watched the stephen lett video @ jw.org .

  the first minutes he shows himself as a nice chap.

  uncle stephen knows what's best for you.. and then i see the extreme fundamentalist he is, talking short about apostates.

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  Interesting change in eye-blinking when he refers to the pedophile topic.

  "is someone takes action (blink, blink, blink)...it is Jehovah's Organization" (blink)

  typical sign for a lie.
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  October 1914? Really?

  by sylvlef in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  km august 2014, page 3 paragraph 6(article for this week's service meeting):.

  "the month of october 2014 will see the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the kingdom.

  for this occasion a special edition of the watchtower will be on this theme.".

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  I remember that I read a QfR in a German Edition of an old WT (IIRC end 1940s) in our KH library that dealt with this and the official answers was really that Satan was aware of Bible chronology and made some turmoil on earth to distract humankind from the birth of the kingdom. Sounded already odd to me back than.

  edited: there was another QfR in the early 70s.
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  Seventeen-and-a-half glorious minutes with the irrepressible Mr Lett

  by rory-ks in

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  2. friends

  can't...tear...my...eyes...away.... .

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zx8db7m5mzq.

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  http://images.wikia.com/muppet/images/1/16/SamEagle.jpg
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  Video of the Annual Meeting / new FDS understanding on JW.org

  by cedars in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i apologize if this is old news or has already been discussed, but i notice the society has posted a video commenting on the annual meeting and the adjusted understanding of matthew 24:45 on jw.org.. here is the link.... http://www.jw.org/en/news/events-activities/video-clip-2012-annual-meeting-program/.

  thoughts?.

  cedars.

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  Lett looks odd to me.
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  Why you should not worry about Japan's nuclear reactor problems.

  by beatthesystem in

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  2. current

  a nuclear reactor is built in such a way, that when operating normally, you take out all the moderator rods.

  so if these radioactive materials are released into the environment, yes, radioactivity was released, but no, it is not dangerous, at all.

  when the uranium splits, it generates a neutron (see above).

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  GermanXJW

  http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2014609124_germanprotest27.html

  250,000 across Germany protest nuclear power
  
  Tens of thousands of people Saturday turned out in Germany's largest cities to protest the use of nuclear power in the wake of Japan's Fukushima reactor disaster, police and organizers said.
  
  By JUERGEN BAETZ
  
  The Associated Press
  
  BERLIN — Tens of thousands of people on Saturday turned out in Germany's largest cities to protest the use of nuclear power in the wake of Japan's Fukushima reactor disaster, police and organizers said.
  
  In Berlin alone more than 100,000 took to the capital's streets to urge Germany's leaders to immediately abolish nuclear power, police spokesman Jens Berger said.
  
  Organizers said some 250,000 people marched at the "Fukushima Warns: Pull the Plug on all Nuclear Power Plants" rallies in the country's four largest cities, making them the biggest anti-nuclear protest in the country's history.
  
  "We can no longer afford bearing the risk of a nuclear catastrophe," Germany's environmental lobby group BUND said.
  
  The disaster in Japan triggered Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative government last week to order a temporary shutdown of seven of the country's older reactors pending thorough safety investigations.
  
  Officials have since hinted several of them might never go back into service.
  
  Protesters shouted "Fukushima, Chernobyl: Too much is too much!" or "Switch them off," urging the government to shut the country's 17 reactors for good.
  
  They also held a minute of silence to remember the victims of Japan's March 11 earthquake and tsunami.
  
  In the northern port city of Hamburg, 40,000 turned out and more than 30,000 were on the streets in southern Munich, police said. Cologne police did not provide a figure and referred to the organizer's estimate of 40,000 protesters.
  
  BUND, in turn, said some 120,000 turned out in Berlin, 50,000 in Hamburg and 40,000 in Cologne and Munich each.
  
  Saturday's turnout easily topped rallies last April after safety incidents at a northern German nuclear-power plant near Hamburg that had seen 140,000 people taking to the streets, BUND spokesman Thorben Becker said.
  
  Nuclear power has been unpopular in Germany ever since radioactivity from the 1986 Chernobyl disaster drifted across the country.
  
  A center-left government a decade ago penned a plan to abandon the technology by 2021, but Merkel's government last year amended it to extend the plants' lifetime by an average of 12 years.
  
  In a complete U-turn, the government has now put that plan on hold.
  
  The cascade of failures at Japan's Fukushima plant has reignited the political debate on the use of nuclear power in Germany, Europe's biggest economy, and many opposition lawmakers have called to shut all reactors before 2020.
  
  Germany — which stands alone among the wold's leading industrialized nations in its determination to overcome nuclear power — currently gets 23 percent of its energy supply from its reactors.